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Illegalism

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[–] silt_haddock@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

Legality is to do with punishment. There are many things which I may not agree with 'morally' for whatever reason but by the same token I do not by any means believe people should be punished for those things, provided they do not hurt another person. E.g I've been vegetarian for 20+ years, and I strongly disagree with excessive consumption of meat on moral grounds, but I don't think anyone should be punished for eating meat.

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Funny how the Nethanyahu and GB are criminalizing anyone who speaks out about killing kids in Palestine, when the Jewish people went through the same shit. Man people are selfish.

[–] SurfinBird@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] compostgoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

This was originally posted several years before he became well known. I suppose there’s actually a chance he saw it at some point, but I didn’t post it with him in mind though

This is why I call them the Geneva checklist, after all who's to judge me if there is no one left? History will but at least I'll have a damned interesting chapter, we shall start with things to do with corpses and shall move on to generally frowned apon munitions. It ain't moral, it ain't legal, but it'll make damned fine Sabaton song.

I feel like I was going to make a point but forgot damned quickly. Fuck it back to Total Warhammer 3.

[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com -3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Imo, legality is the best single metric for morality.

It's not perfect, but uf you look at the 'on the books but actually okay' stuff like rape and killing people with your car, it looks even better. Like, you coild do an okay-ish job of low effort simulating an above average conscience by accepting and inverting 'legal=moral'.